Till Death Us Do Part

Till Death Us Do Part

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Undercover Fiancé

Marissa Devereaux discovered that paradise wasn't all it was cracked up to be when she was abducted by extremists on the Caribbean island of Costa Verde.... But things only got worse when Jed Prentiss showed up, claiming to be fiancé.

A Wedding Ruse?

While Marissa was glad that her new friends at 43 Light Street had teamed up to come to her rescue, she wondered if marriage to the gruff, abrasive Jed was her only salvation.

After all, how could she trust this man with her life, if she couldn't trust him with her heart?

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Rebecca York's Bio

An award-winning, bestselling novelist, Ruth Glick, writing as Rebecca York, is the author of more than one hundred books. Ever since she can remember, Ruth has loved making up stories full of adventure, romance and suspense. As a child she corralled her friends into adventure games or acted out stories with a cast of dolls.

But she never assumed she could be an author because she couldnt spell. Her life changed, however, with the invention of the word processor and spell-checkerand with the help of her husband who spots spelling errors from fifty paces.

In addition to her fiction career, Ruth is also an award-winning author of fifteen cookbooks, although she admits that her first culinary adventure was a spectacular failure.

At the age of three, she made a cake out of modeling clay and asked a friend to share it with her. They were both sick for a week. The early misadventure failed to dampen Ruths culinary enthusiasm. By the age of eight she had mastered the skill of doctoring canned soup with herbs and spices.

When she married during the summer between her junior and senior years in college, she dazzled her new husband by making forty different main dishes before repeating herself. The only failure was devilled crab. Because she had no cayenne pepper, she tried to compensate by using double the amount of black pepper. Her husband, who likes his food hot, ate the fiery dish anyway.

Ruth says she has the best job in the world. Not only does she get paid for spinning out her fantasies, she also gets paid for playing with food in the kitchen. Her creativity is further evident in the fabulous European-style garden she has designed and in the eclectic furnishings throughout her home.

Ruths many awards include the 1998 Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for Best Harlequin Intrigue of the Year for Nowhere Man, and the 1998 Affaire de Coeur Choices des Critiques (Critics Choice) Award for Best Contemporary Romance Novel, also for Nowhere Man. The Secret Night won the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award as the Best Intrigue of 2006. She has also won two Career Achievement awards from Romantic Times. Michael Dirda of Washington Post Book World, calls her "a real luminary of contemporary series romance."

If left to her own devices, Ruth would stay home working on her novels. But every few months her husband pries her away from her word processor for a trip.

They have traveled across the U.S. and Canada and frequently visit foreign locales. Their wanderings have taken them to Austria, the British Isles, Central and South America, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kenya, New Zealand, Russia, Slovakia, Tanzania, Thailand and Tunisia.

Ruth makes a point of trying a wide range of foreign dishes, which often inspire recipes in her cookbooks. Many of her unique experiences find their way into her novelslike the time she encountered a coral snake in the Guatemalan jungle, taking a helicopter over a burning lava field or a hot-air balloon flight. And the dry creek in her front garden is filled with the rocks her husband has kindly lugged home for her from around the world.

Ruth holds a B.A. in American thought and civilization from the George Washington University and an M.A. in American studies from the University of Maryland. She heads the Columbia Writers Workshop, a group of writers who have been meeting every two weeks to critique each others work for the past twenty-five years.